Subcategories - Nuclear Weapons, Power, Radiation

  1. Activists Oppose Deployment of the MX Missile
  2. American Scientists Campaign Against Nuclear Testing
  3. Arms Race
  4. Arthur Holly Compton
  5. Atomic Bombing of Japan
  6. Atomic Bombs Destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  7. Atomic Energy Act
  8. The Atomic Energy Commission Is Established
  9. Atomic-Powered Submarine Nautilus Is Launched
  10. Bush Announces Nuclear Arms Reductions
  11. Canadian Activists Found Greenpeace
  12. Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
  13. The Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Explodes
  14. China Conducts Atmospheric Nuclear Test
  15. China Detonates Powerful Nuclear Device
  16. China Explodes Its First Nuclear Bomb
  17. Cohen Begins Research on Neutron Bomb
  18. Construction Starts on Brookhaven Nuclear Reactor
  19. Cousins Founds SANE
  20. Cuban Missile Crisis
  21. Disarmament
  22. Edward Teller
  23. Edwin Mattison McMillan
  24. England’s Windscale Reactor Releases Radiation
  25. Enrico Fermi
  26. European Nations Open Superphénix
  27. An Explosion Occurs in the Chalk River Nuclear Reactor
  28. Explosives
  29. Fermi Creates the First Controlled Nuclear Fission Chain Reaction
  30. The First Atomic Bomb Is Successfully Detonated
  31. The First British Nuclear Plant Is Opened
  32. First Commercial Atomic-Powered Ship, Savannah, Is Launched
  33. The First Controlled Fission Reaction Occurs
  34. The First U.S. Commercial Nuclear Plant Opens
  35. France Announces End to Nuclear Bomb Tests
  36. French Agents Sink the Rainbow Warrior
  37. French Plans for Nuclear Tests Draw Protests
  38. General Public Utilities Announces Plans for a Commercial Nuclear Reactor
  39. German Officials Seize Plutonium
  40. Glenn Theodore Seaborg
  41. Hanford Nuclear Reservation Becomes a Health Concern
  42. Hans Albrecht Bethe
  43. Hydrogen Bomb Is Detonated
  44. Hyman G. Rickover
  45. India and Pakistan Conduct Nuclear Weapon Tests
  46. INF Treaty Is Signed
  47. Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
  48. Israel Destroys Iraqi Nuclear Reactor
  49. J. Robert Oppenheimer
  50. Japan Has Its Worst Nuclear Accident